Category Archives: Ancient art

Anatomical Theatre of Padua, Bo Palace, University of Padua

The Anatomical Theatre of Padua, Northern Italy, is the first permanent anatomical theatre in the World. Still preserved in the Palazzo del Bo, it was inaugurated in 1595 by Girolamo Fabrici of Acquapendente, according to the project of Paolo Sarpi and Dario Varotari. This theatre constituted the model for the…

Anatomical Theatre of Padua, Bo Palace, University of Padua

Rome Labyrinth, The Romanesque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Romanesque Art Collection is one of the most important and emblematic of the Museum for its exceptional series of wall painting sets. In fact, its uniqueness is unparalleled in any other museum in the world. Many of these paintings, from small rural churches in the Pyrenees and other parts…

Rome Labyrinth, The Romanesque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

1914-1924, The prodigious decade, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

The exhibition commemorates two momentous events in the history of Catalonia’s self-government. On the one hand, the creation, from March of 1914, of the Archaeological Excavation Service of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans on the initiative of Josep Puig i Cadafalch and at the request of the Diputació de Barcelona, chaired…

1914-1924, The prodigious decade, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

The fragility in time, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Glass is one of the first man-made synthesis materials, and is the protagonist of one of the Museum’s most remarkable collections, unique in Catalonia. Necklaces and pendants, jugs and bowls, droppers and ointments … The exhibition consists of glass found in the excavations of Empúries, Puig des Molins and Mallorca,…

The fragility in time, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Inheritance of Rome: Roman collections, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

The arrival of the Romans at the end of the century. BC launched the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, a process of adaptation of indigenous communities towards a new culture and social and economic organization. Rome remained for more than 700 years a great empire around the Mediterranean, including the…

Inheritance of Rome: Roman collections, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

The blue sea bridge. Phoenicians and Greeks in the Mediterranean, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Our current reality would be impossible to understand without a fundamental period of Mediterranean history. Between the 9th and 3rd centuries BC, the action of Phoenicians and Greeks on the riverside villages caused the final fading of the haze of prehistoric times. Indigenous societies joined the Written Peoples’ Concert, learned…

The blue sea bridge. Phoenicians and Greeks in the Mediterranean, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Prehistories. Catalonia before Catalonia, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

The technological advances that took place in prehistory were as revolutionary as they are today, though much more spaced in time. Humanity changed thanks to the mastery of fire, the carving of stone and the manufacture of the first tools. These improvements helped consolidate communities and stimulate their material progress.…

Prehistories. Catalonia before Catalonia, Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Setting reproduces a cave in the Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, with cave drawings representing animals. Sambaquis, found on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, warn of the need to preserve archaeological sites and the environment. A word that in Tupi means “our home”, Oreretama presents the indigenous populations,…

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Anthropology Halls in North Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) has 24 exhibition halls. The rooms dedicated to anthropology and pre-Hispanic cultures of the Mexican territory are located on the ground floor, from the Population of America to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period. The permanent exhibitions on the ground floor cover all pre-Columbian civilizations located…

Anthropology Halls in North Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

Anthropology Halls in South Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

Anthropology Halls in South Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

Ceramics gallery, Boshan Ceramics and Colored Glaze Art Museum

Boshan Ceramics colored glaze Art Museum was established in April 2006 and officially opened in September 2007. It is divided into the Ceramics Museum and the colored glaze Museum. The colored glaze Museum is located in Xie Street, Boshan District, covering an area of 2600 square meters. The company’s courtyard…

Ceramics gallery, Boshan Ceramics and Colored Glaze Art Museum

The collector and his collection, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

The collector and the collection on the Ground Floor. Part of the collections that Don José Lázaro Galdiano donated to the State is exhibited in the museum. The ground floor of the museum was original use as warehouse, having been reformed to receive today part of the exhibition. The rooms…

The collector and his collection, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

The Palazzo dei Conservatori, headquarters of the magistrature of the same name for hundreds of years, has, since the end of the 15th century, been home to the Capitoline collection of sculptures. The palazzo’s interior design and the layout of the works of art has been modified over the years.…

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

Pompei@Madre. Archaeological Matter: The Collections, Madre – Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition “Pompei@Madre. Materia Archeologica: Le Collezioni”, organized by the Madre museum in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, explores the potential multiple relationships between archaeological heritage and modern and contemporary artistic research, creating a dialogue between extraordinary but rarely displayed material from Pompeii and the artworks of Madre…

Pompei@Madre. Archaeological Matter: The Collections, Madre – Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum

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